bots

Last week we published a blog post detailing how Prolific verifies that our participants aren’t bots and that individuals aren't open multiple accounts. Thing is, when it comes to participant data, “not being a bot” is about the lowest bar you can set. This week, we want to say a bit more…

Recently, researchers using Amazon Mechanical Turk to collect data for their studies found large numbers of bot-like responses in their data from workers with very similar geoIP co-ordinates. You can read more about this here, and in many other forums and mailing lists. Some have reported that the "bots" may…